Generation of carrier-envelope phase stabilized intense 1.5 cycle pulses at 1.75 μm

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 6783-6789

  Li, Chuang ^a   Wang, Ding ^a   Song, Liwei ^a   Liu, Jun ^a,b   Liu, Peng ^a   Xu, Canhua ^a   Leng, Yuxin ^a   Li, Ruxin ^a   Xu, Zhizhan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON LASERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS;

CARRIER-ENVELOPE PHASE; CENTER WAVELENGTH; CYCLE PULSE; DISPERSION COMPENSATOR; HIGH CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HOLLOW FIBER; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; TERAHERTZ EMISSIONS;

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 79953217435     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.006783     Document Type: Article

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